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Re: grub/floppy/ext2 question



On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:40:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> If you check if a file system is Ext2 before checking if it is MS-DOS (as 
> Linux does) then there will be no problems in such a situation.
> 
> I think that format.exe will wipe out the Ext2 superblock, so therefore the 
> only correct thing to do is to check for Ext2 first before even considering 
> checking for MS-DOS.
> 
> I suggest that a bug be filed against grub in this regard.

Done, bug #175358.

The maintainer though has pointed out that my version of grub is
very old (Debian woody), anyone know if the latest version has the
same problem?
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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